Commuting groups and the Fuglede-Putnam theorem
Various topics concerning compact elementary operators on Banach algebras are studied: their ranges, their coefficients, and the structure of algebras having nontrivial compact elementary operators. In the first part of the paper we consider separately elementary operators of certain simple types. In the second part we obtain our main results which deal with general elementary operators.
We consider the compactness of derivations from commutative Banach algebras into their dual modules. We show that if there are no compact derivations from a commutative Banach algebra, A, into its dual module, then there are no compact derivations from A into any symmetric A-bimodule; we also prove analogous results for weakly compact derivations and for bounded derivations of finite rank. We then characterise the compact derivations from the convolution algebra ℓ¹(ℤ₊) to its dual. Finally, we give...
We give a corrected proof of Theorem 2.10 in our paper “Commutators on ” [Studia Math. 206 (2011), 175-190] for the case 1 < q < p < ∞. The case when 1 = q < p < ∞ remains open. As a consequence, the Main Theorem and Corollary 2.17 in that paper are only valid for 1 < p,q < ∞.